Hard cider fog injection Mike...shhhh! It is sprayed on the filter before he leaves the pits and give him a 3-4 lap boost.
Seriously, back in the day of electric RC racing there was a material you could apply to your commutator of electric RC cars and it gave you better performance the first few laps until it wore off. It has fallen out of vogue or is illegal...plus these days they are racing brushless motors with LiPo batteries instead of brushed motors and Nicads or brushed motors and NiMH batteries.
David
That 'stuff' is LPS-1. I used to sell it! If you have a bike that gets wet points (Seattle riders, are you reading this?) you can spray it on and they will run, even submerged. When I had my shop, we sprayed it on the dirt bikes with the points-magnetos (Suzys) for enduro racing. The bikes could be ridden through a deep pond or creek, filling the points cover full of water, and the spark never missed a beat. The only thing that would stop our shop racer (TM250) was water in the air filter, somehow getting into the snorkel.
It's an incredible polymer that hates itself but loves metals: when sprayed on the contacts it closes over the almost instantly as the points open, and when they close it scrams out of the way like roaches when you turn on the lights. I once saw a high-speed video of it in action, truly amazing stuff. The first demo I saw was a guy who sprayed in on some points, fired up the bike, and turned a garden hose right on the points. The bike never skipped.
I still use it, myself, on the points in all my vehicles. And, it works great on model train tracks, too, keeps the corrosion away and the wheels from building up gunk. It also revives the switch contacts in our handlebar switches, the contacts in our plugs and bullet connectors, and keeps the ground lugs from ever corroding. Ever.
